Pamela Harriman Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman 1920-1997

10 February 2021 Comments 0 Comments

Excerpted from “Great Contemporaries, Pamela Harriman,” Hillsdale College Churchill Project. To read the full-strength original with more illustrations, click here. Better yet, join 60,000 readers of Hillsdale essays by the world’s best Churchill writers. by subscribing. You will receive regular notices (“Weekly Winstons”) of new articles as published. Visit https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/, scroll to bottom and fill in your email in the box entitled “Stay in touch with us.” Your email will remain a riddle wrapped a mystery inside an enigma.

Pamela: she got there on her own

In December 1941 Winston Churchill. disarming whatever critics he still had, told the U.S.…

Life Amid Chaos: “The Hope Still Lives…The Dream Shall Never Die”

23 March 2020 Comments 1 Comment

My brother Andrew Roberts inspired this post, when he asked for Churchill quotations about childbirth. Yes, even now, friends have brought a new life into the world. Three months ago, my son and daughter-in-law did likewise.

Life Goes On

On 30 May 1909, Clementine Churchill was pregnant with their first child, Diana. Winston, asking her to practice social distancing, wrote these beautiful words: “We are in the grip of circumstances, and out of pain joy will spring, and from passing weakness new strength will arise.”

Four and one-half decades later, his daughter Mary was a fortnight overdue for the birth of Charlotte, her fourth child.…

Present at the Creation: Randolph Churchill and the Official Biography (2)

24 August 2019 Comments 2 Comments

“Randolph Churchill: Present at the Creation,” is taken from a lecture aboard the Regent Seven Seas Explorer on the 2019 Hillsdale College Cruise around Britain, 8 June 2019. Continued from Part 1.

Randolph Churchill Postwar

Out of the Army and Parliament in 1945, and divorced from Pamela in 1946, Randolph Churchill led a “rampaging existence,” his sister Mary wrote. “He always had lances to break, and hares to start.” He was loyal and affectionate, but he “would pick an argument with a chair.”

In 1948 he married June Osborne and fathered his second child, Arabella.…